The firing of the artillery on the heights was kept up with vigour for two days.
About twelve of the principal chiefs of Cairo were arrested and confined in an apartment at headquarters.

They awaited with the calmest resignation the death they knew they merited; but Bonaparte merely detained them as hostages.

The aga in the service of Bonaparte was astonished that sentence of death was not pronounced upon them; and he said, shrugging his shoulders, and with a gesture apparently intended to provoke severity, "You see they expect it." On the third the insurrection was at an end, and tranquillity restored.
Numerous prisoners were conducted to the citadel.

In obedience to an order which I wrote every evening, twelve were put to death nightly.

The bodies were then put into sacks and thrown into the Nile.